Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.

Preferred qualifications

Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
7 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
5 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
Experience conducting research on developer tools or on users who are highly technical developers.

About The Job

As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you’ll help your team of UXers, Product Managers, and Engineers understand user needs. You’ll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development. You’ll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You’ll explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

The UXR community at Google is unique and will help you do your best work. You’ll have the opportunity to work with and learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools.

The Analytics, Insights and Measurement team will steer the outlook for how our largest global advertisers achieve success. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding strong research programs and delivering insights that define our competitive edge and long-term product direction. You will act as a key advisor to product leadership, translating complex user needs into actionable strategy.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
Own project priorities in alignment with larger product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
Own outlook and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about users, product, service, or business needs.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

Staff UX Researcher, Analytics, Insights and Measurement

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